well... the 3rd day is definiteleee a bz day... we got up earlier then before cause we gotta prepare for our road trip to Chiang Rai in order to visit the Golden Triangle... the infamous drug trading place during the past.. it got the name golden triangle instead of the triangle is because the trades were all done in gold bars... for the triangle... well it's obvious at tat point of the river connected 3 countries.. which is thailand, myanmar and laos... but juz a bit up north is china... tat explains why there are quiet some numbers of chinese immigrants in thailand.
the river that flows through all these countries is the mekong river... if we see from thailand, the land across the river is laos... the boat ride across the river cost around 300baht which is about RM30 but when u reach there... it's nothing much cause it's juz another tourists spots as all the stuffs sold are souveniors and they're all owned by the leader of the village but there's one thing tat reallee caught my eye.. tat is u can buy a post card there and send it back to your homeland for there has a reallee small post box for you to post your mails... that's kindda cute...
so our journey starts like about 7am we made a stop somewhere on the free road... the stop is unique as there's hot springs all over the place... again there's a lot of tourists mechandise like semi-precious stones... but the fun thing is there's old ladies walking around wif small bags of chicken eggs and also birds' eggs they're sold to the tourists in order to let them experience cooking the egg using the heat of the hotsprings... the eggs are put in a small basket and is then put intothe hot springs water by a bamboo stick. when we were done with the hot springs... we moved on wif our journey up north... i couldn't sleep later on as the heat is killing me! the bus is no longer cold and the sun... it's so bright and hot.. the bus is getting warmer and warmer as well... i was feeling kindda uneasy but soon.. something caught my eyes.. the view around is so beautiful tat i can't stop taking peektures of the view... the colors in the sky is juz spectacular... the major crops in thailand is rice... so there's juz so maneee padi fields tat's so beautiful as the color green is so so so rich! there's a lot of mountains as the background of the padi fields... the view is jus so... picturesque. there were oso some crops that i couldn't recognize wut they're planting they juz look like gigantic cocoons filling up the hills... which make the free way so much more interesting... after the immense journey, we finallee reached chiang rai... they were jus maps of the 4 countries every where... and buddhas too.. there's also a private casino there and it is said that the buddhas that're built there is to help the feng shui of the casino... that'll attract more customores to the place the most astonishing news is the cost of the stay at the casino's hotel is only 180baht which is extremeleee cheap... and if u want to get to the casino you'll hav to get on a speed boat ride that'll send you to the entrance of the casino.. again... there's a standing buddha leading the way to the casino...
after we went for the boat ride to laos, we went further to the north and then we got to the border of myanmar... tat's definiteleee a place of poverty... there's child beggars everywhere and they'll juz gonna tail u for as long as possible... and people were carrying big big bags on their back, cycling mostly juz by foot to cross the border... again... there's a surprise... one of the jade jewellers store had half of the shop turned into a cafe... the coffee beans that they use to blend those aromatic coffee is their local line of fine roasted coffee beans caled DOI CHANG and for their rich choclate drink, they use vochelle cocoa powder... that drink was heavenly~~~
later on, we went to the village of the famous long neck tribe known as palong tribe... but there's also another tribe tat's living in the same village, they're the aksha tribe.. these tribe members are actuallee paid to stay in the village in thailand... they have a monthly salary like about 6000baht and they're allow to stay there for 6 months and after that another family will come over to rake over the job... so it's like it's a good thing cause they get to earn some money for the tribe.. but it's kindda cruel to be treated like the animals in the zoo... anyhow, they've got to experience living their live with the tv which they don't get to in their original village... on the way to the village, they're police road block.. and boy... there's a reallee enormous black dog on a black truck... this is definiteleee the most tired day of the whole trip as we onlee got back to our hotel during midnight...
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